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HEXANDRIA, MONOGYNTA. 238 
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> Tet. 
Corolla subcampanulate, petals 
_ the 3 interior usually furnish 
- denture on each side near the » and 
tariferous pore. Capsule superior, roundish 0 or 
elliptic, substipitate. Seeds ovate? 
Root bulbous; leaves a single pair, sheathing, macu- 
_ jate; scape 1-flowered, flower cernuous, yellow, rarely 
_ white, or violaceous. 
Spectes. 1. E. americanum. Ker, in Bot. Mag. 1113. 
Hortus Kewensis, 1. p. 248. E. lanceolatum. Pursh, 1. p. 
230. Leaves thickly covered with superficial punctures; 
dentate near the base; style clavate, stigma entire, inter- 
nally pubescent. Has. Throughout the. Atlantic states, 
- on the lowest alluvial banks of streams. Ogs. Root 2 
~ small tunicated, brown, ovate bulb. Leaves elliptic-Jan- 
ceolate, with somewhat acuminated callous points, mar- 
bled with green and brown (after the manner of the ge- 
nus). Petals spotted near the base, reflected, inner ones 
ovate-lanceolate with a longitudinal groove on the inner 
side communicating at the base with a minute nectariferous 
cist, on either side of these petals there is an auriculated 
crisp tooth embracing the filaments, (nothing like a gland 
or callosity at the base!) Style attenuated downwards, 
clavate, 3-sided, tubular or perforated; stigma entire, 
muirgin crenulate. Germ elliptic. Capsule substipitate. 
Fine: ge & 
les and territories into Sap Upner Louisiana, 
a grandifiorum, Pursh. A species not patistactgrily de- =a 
: » fined. - 
3° albidum. Leaf impunctate; petals linear-lanceolate, 
f the Missouri, where no other species 
Wray of Augusta informed aot i 
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petals oblong-lanceolate, points obtuse, interior ones bi- i 
ints obtuse, inner ones without dentures, : 
te; style filiform ode ch sebteoine ‘stigma trifid, — 
bes reflected, internally papillose. Has. Throughout 
